portupgrade upgrades ports despite +IGNOREME files
Craig Boston
craig at xfoil.gank.org
Tue Jul 13 08:21:43 PDT 2004
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 02:23:52PM -0700, Eli K. Breen wrote:
> cd /usr/ports/lang/perl5.8/
> touch "+IGNOREME"
AFAICT, the +IGNOREME file should be in the package directory, not the
port directory. For example,
cd /var/db/pkg/perl-5.8.4/
touch +IGNOREME
> Add 'lang/perl*', as a held package in /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf to
> no avail.
The -f option to portupgrade overrides held packages and reinstalls them
anyway. Another possibility that may be useful to you is the -x option
to portupgrade to exclude certain ports from this run only. i.e.
portupgrade -Raf -x perl
Multiple -x options can be specified if you have a long list of ports
that you don't want to reinstall.
Hope this helps,
Craig
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